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Johann Christian Kestner

Johann Georg Christian Kestner was a German lawyer and archivist. He is also notable as the model for Lotte's husband Albert in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, with Kestner's fiancée Charlotte Buff used as the model for Lotte herself.

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Goethe und Werther: Briefe Goethe's, meistens aus seiner Jugendzeit

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